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Who can configure an ATI Mach32 PCI graphics card for mehttp://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?66807-Who-can-configure-an-ATI-Mach32-PCI-graphics-card-for-me&goto=newpost
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 02:59:55 GMTI could really need some help. I've got an ATI Mach32 PCI Graphics Wonder here, with 2 MByte RAM. I need to setup the refresh rates for the supported resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024). I have the DOS utilities (INSTALL.EXE) - i.e. I have three different versions of it, all claiming to support the PCI version of Mach32. But INSTALL.EXE does not work, always tells me that it cannot find the Mach32 BIOS - this is complete nonsense. I have debugged INSTALL.EXE and can confirm that it finds the BIOS. So the real cause is unknown and the error message is probably some default error message.

I have 2 possible solutions for my problem.

Solution 1:
I wrote my own utility which reads the onboard configuration eeprom. If you have a Mach32 PCI and would be willing to run this program on your computer, the logs would help me to better understand the eeprom contents and I might be able to fix my Mach32 using my own written utility. I would need several logs for different monitor configurations. I have the original ATI Mach32 programmers manual but the documentation does not seem to be up to date and in some areas simply does not explain what the short descriptions mean.

Solution 2:
If you are confident that you can configure a Mach32 PCI for me (i.e. if you have a Mach32 PCI which you have configured and therefore you are sure that you have a compatible computer system), I could mail my Mach32 to you, and you set it up for me and mail it back to me. I would of course reimburse you for your expenses.